Reflection has crept into them; they are in fact love-songs, with here and there a tinge of philosophy, The most famous as well as the most powerful and original of Bion's poems remaining to us is the threnody upon Adonis.
Bion's threnody has undoubtedly become a criterion and given the form to some of the more famous "songs of tears".
A cooing dove (just one) murmured her dreamy threnody and then was silent.
The song of a blue bird, with its softly warbled notes fell upon our ear, and the dreamy threnody of a mourning dove made a soft accompaniment.
Longfellow There was a Monkey Three Acres of Land Three Children Three Jovial Huntsmen Threnody George T.
When he attempts threnody he is as frigid as Cowley.
In a long irregular threnody or funeral ode, the great technical difficulty is to support lyrical emotion throughout.
No ode or threnody could equal in vibrating passion Captain Scott's last testament.
The threnody was widely known and sung in the middle years of the last century, by people, too, who had scarcely heard of Mrs. Judson, and received in the music and words their first hint of her history.
For Vondel's beautiful threnody we have unfortunately no space, but shall content ourselves with quoting the first strophe of Huyghens' touching elegy: "Here Tesselschade lies.
Soon after the wedding-verses, Vondel wrote a threnody on the assassination of Henry IV.
Who lies within that tomb I do not know, The yellow bird intones his threnody In notes as colourless as driven snow, Clashing with the green hush and out of key.
